Improvement in machine for whipping cloth



E.-EA'I-"ON. MACHINE FOR WHIPPING CLOTH.

No. 87,330. Patented Mar. 2, 1869 tetra at @Bffira Iletterslatemt Nnsmso, dated Ma/rch 2,1869.

IMPROVEDIBN'I'IN MQCHINE FOR WHIPPING- CLOTH.

The Schedule mmeq-mm these Letters Patent ansmamn' pm strike against asit revolves, causing the shafts B B to partially revolve or vibrate, andoperate the rise-and'- To all wltom it may concern y Be it known that I,EBEN EATON, of tne town of Norwalk, eounty of Fairfield, and StateofOo'nnecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Modeof Constructing Whipping-Machines for \Vhips ping Woollen 010th, toraise the nap on the same; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full and exact description thereof, reference being had tothewcompanying-'drawing,"and to the letters of reference marked thereon.v

- The nature of 'my invention consists inthe arrange; -ment of 'a seriesof whips, attached to shafts, actuated by toothed gear-wheels, with aHat beating-board, or bed, between the endless apron, the same to beatthereof when inoperation.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use Y my invention, Iwill'proeeed to describe its construction and operation.

.In the drawing-'- I 'Figure '1 is a transverse'view of the front of thewhipperr 7 v I Figure 2 is a plan view of the same; Figure 3 is across-section from a to t. There 'is a whipping-machine now in use, butthe machinery composing the same is very extensive and costly.'

My improvement consists in a cheap and simple machine, to efl'ect thesame purpose. I

. I make the frame A, as shown in the; drawing,'to receive the variousparts of the operating-machinery, of either wood or metal.

The shafts BB receive sockets, or steins b, of the whips c, which areattached and adjusted by means of the set-screws D. These shafts B B aresupported by the hearings E, and vibrate in the same.

On one "end of each of the shafts B B is'a bevelled gear, F, or itsequivalent, with one for they projecting tooth of the bevelled gear G Gto speed may require.

--from the shearer, to be operated why the I g travels longitudinally onthe apron.- tached to the cloth-shearing'machine,andformingpa'rtprojecting tooth, Y

of the same.

fall movement of the whips c. tain one .or more teeth The gears G mayconor projections, the case or The shaft P runs transversely andat rightangles with the shafts-B B, and a gear, G, is attached near each end ofthe same, which is actuated by means of a belt, K, on the pulley L. Thisbelt runs to and on j a pulley of the shearingmachine, which transmitsmotion to the whole. .The endless apron M receivesand conveys the clothwhips as it Between the upper andlower surfaces of v the apron M, andclose up to the upper, I place a beating-board, N, covered withasoft'felt, or other similar substance,

to keep the cloth, which is being operated on by the .v-whips,-fromsaggingin the middle between the rollers, and, by so doing, presenting astraight, even surface to the blows'of the whips c.

A pulley,- o, is attachedlto'the end of the endlessbelt roller, and abelt runs from the same to a pulley on the end 'of-the transverse shaftP, to actuate the apron'M.

, Springs R are attached to the vibrating shait B, to cause the;return-action or-striking-movement of the whips c. X v

I'do' not claim, as new a machine for. whipping cloth, to raise the nap.V

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is- I 1 The combination, in a cloth-whipping machine, of the whips b andc, shafts B and P,'gears F and G, and beating-board N, arranged andconstructedin the manner substantially as aud'for the purpose'hereinspecified. EBEN EATON. I

l Witnesses:

' WM. Vnm,

' ALFRED H. Cam.

